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William Tell's apple-shot as depicted in Sebastian Münster's Cosmographia (1554 edition). Shooting an apple off one's child's head, also known as apple-shot (from German Apfelschuss) is a feat of marksmanship with a bow that occurs as a motif in a number of legends in Germanic folklore (and has been connected with non-European folklore).
Milward's debut novel is an account of teenage life on a Middlesbrough housing estate. [2] It is narrated in the first person by several characters (including a butterfly), but mainly by Adam and Eve, two school students.
The World of Apples received outstanding reviews upon its release, and according to biographer Blake Bailey "some of the best reviews of Cheever's career." [ 6 ] [ 7 ] Literary critic Lynne Waldeland reports that Larry Woiwode of the New York Times Book Review praised the volume as "an extraordinary book, a transfiguring experience for the ...
Taste of Apples (traditional Chinese: 兒子的大玩偶; simplified Chinese: 儿子的大玩偶) is a collection of short stories by the Taiwanese writer Huang Chunming. The English translation is by Howard Goldblatt and was published in 2001 by Columbia University Press.
She gets angry and tries to turn them into apples again, but Jenny holds up a mirror in front of Mrs. Gorf, and Mrs. Gorf turns herself into an apple. Louis then comes in, sees the apple, and—unaware that it is actually Mrs. Gorf—shines it up on his shirt, and eats it. 2. Mrs. Jewls Mrs. Jewls becomes the new teacher after Mrs. Gorf is eaten.
"The Song of Wandering Aengus" is a poem by Irish poet W. B. Yeats.It was first printed in 1897 in British magazine The Sketch under the title "A Mad Song." [1] It was then published under its standard name in Yeats' 1899 anthology The Wind Among the Reeds. [1]
The title, "Oranges and Apples," refers to a game of choice. As one of the main characters, Barbara Zeigler, explains, the game begins with easy choices that grow progressively more challenging. When reading the story, it's clear that Barbara, along with her husband, Murray, and Murray's friend, Victor Sawicky, make choices akin to the game.
The Polish story begins with: On a glass mountain grew a tree with golden apples. An apple would let the picker into the golden castle where an enchanted princess lived. Many knights had tried and failed, so that many bodies lay about the mountain. A knight in golden armor tried. One day, he made it halfway up and calmly went down again.